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Author Leyda, Julia, author.

Title American mobilities : geographies of class, race, and gender in US culture / Julia Leyda.

Publication Info. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource.
Series American culture studies ; volume 14
American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 14.
Note A published record of the author's doctoral research, completed at the University of Washington between 1995 and 1998, and then substantially revised over subsequent years.
Title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on Sept. 30, 2016).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Reading white trash : class, race, and mobility in Faulkner and Le Sueur -- Incorporation and embodiment : gender, race, and space in Hurst and Himes -- Who's got the car keys? : geographic, economic, and social mobility in the magic kingdom of Los Angeles -- Black-audience westerns : race, nation, and mobility in the 1930s -- Space, class, city : imagined geographies of Maud Martha -- Home on the range : space, nation, and mobility in The searchers.
Summary American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic, " referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the "American" century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent films with Classical Hollywood, Leyda brings the analytic tools of American cultural and literary studies to bear on an eclectic array of primary texts as she builds a case for the significance of mobility in the study of the United States.-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
American literature -- Social aspects -- 20th century.
Social mobility -- United States.
Human geography -- United States.
Sex role -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Social mobility. (OCoLC)fst01122648
Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
Human geography. (OCoLC)fst00963107
American literature -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00807250
Migration, Internal. (OCoLC)fst01020741
Motion pictures -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01027384
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9783839434550 (electronic bk.)
3839434556 (electronic bk.)
9783837634556 (paperback)
3837634558 (paperback)
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